Simply indispensable. - Slavoj Žižek
"Necessary and invigorating." - John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather

The international bestseller that has inspired a generation of activists.

In Slow Down, the award-winning Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito demonstrates that only a transformation of our economic life can save us from climate collapse. He draws on an insightful new interpretation of Karl Marx's enigmatic final writings and argues that capitalism is inherently at odds with the environment, and that the future must belong to degrowth communism—a fair and humane life within the limits of nature. There is no alternative: the endless acceleration of capital has lost its way. We must slow down.